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Read a single research author by author UUID. Use this tool when a user wants profile details for a specific research author returned by another research tool. The response includes author metadata, biography fields, profile URL, and visible sectors associated with the author. Missing, inactive, non-author, and hidden-sector-only authors return a generic not-found error.

Read a single published research post by post UUID. Use this tool after calling search_research_posts and selecting the most relevant result. The response includes post metadata, authors, sectors, body HTML, and a URL. Depending on the authenticated MCP user's permissions, the body HTML and URL may expose either the full research post or teaser content. Missing, unpublished, and hidden-sector posts return a generic not-found error.

Search research entities by name or approximate name. Use this tool whenever a user refers to an entity by name and a research entity UUID is needed. Results are ranked by match quality and include the research entity UUIDs required by other research tools. When multiple results are returned, review the entity name, description, match type, match confidence, and available research count to determine the most appropriate entity before using its entity_uuid in another tool. This tool only searches existing research entities and does not create or modify data.

Search published research posts associated with one or more research entities. This tool requires research entity UUIDs. If only entity names are known, first call search_research_entities to obtain candidate research entities and their UUIDs. Use only entity_uuid values copied exactly from search_research_entities results. Never infer, guess, construct, or transform UUIDs from entity names. Use this tool only after selecting the most appropriate research entity from the search_research_entities results. Examples: - To find research about "United States", first call search_research_entities with "United States", review the returned matches, select the most appropriate entity, and then call this tool with the selected entity_uuid. - To find recent research about multiple entities, pass all selected entity_uuid values in research_entity_uuids. - To retrieve the next page of results, pass the previous response's next_cursor as cursor. Results can be filtered by publication date and retrieved using cursor-based pagination.